Teaching the Fundamentals of Russian Statehood

The article is devoted to understanding the teaching practice of the academic subject “Fundamentals of Russian Statehood” introduced in 2023. The authors share their impressions about how this subject was perceived in the student audience, analyze its meaningful connections with other academic subjects of the socio-humanitarian cycle and, above all, with the course on the history of Russia, and make suggestions for optimizing these connections. Based on the accumulated experience, the authors express their opinion on the means and ways to improve the teaching of the fundamentals of Russian statehood. In particular, the article suggests that when developing curricula on this subject, it is necessary to take into account the peculiarities of the world views developing among young people, as well as the patterns of perception caused by these features. The article substantiates the need to monitor the dynamics of views and opinions of the youth environment through sociological monitoring, the results of which should be analyzed.